File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for
researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer
architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and
computational science. FAST '08 will bring together storage specialists
from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum.

The FAST program again offers tutorials. Taking place on Tuesday,
February 26, the four half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to
learn from leaders in the storage industry including:

-- Brent Welch and Marc Unangst on Clustered and Parallel Storage System
Technologies

The FAST technical sessions will include a session for Work-in-Progress
reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. We
are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit,
please send an abstract or proposal (one page or less, in plain text or
PDF) to fast08wips@usenix.org by midnight PST, Thursday, January 17,
2008.

New in '08, the poster session will allow researchers to present recent
and ongoing projects. The poster session is an excellent forum to
discuss new ideas and get useful feedback from the community. Poster
submissions should include a brief description of the research, not to
exceed two pages in plain text or PDF. Posters may be accompanied by
demos; if a demo is planned, the proposal should briefly (1-2
paragraphs) describe its nature. Send poster proposals tofast08posters@usenix.org by midnight PST, Thursday, January 17, 2008.

FAST '08 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading
examples of current research and a strong vision of the future of file
and storage technologies.